Sierra National Forest, CA: Soil Formation and Transport

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9FQ9TJQ
OT Collection ID: OT.102012.26911.2
OT Collection Name: Sierra National Forest, CA: Soil Formation and Transport
Short Name: CA05_Heimsath
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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Point Cloud DataBulk DownloadopentopoID: OTLAS.102012.26911.2
Collection Overview: NCALM Seed. PI: Arjun Heimsath, Dartmouth College. The survey area includes four polygons northeast of Fresno, California with the closest area being 21 kilometers northeast of Fresno and the furthest area being 83 kilometers northeast of Fresno. The total survey area is approximately 50 square kilometers. The data were collected to investigate the soil formation and transport in the southern Sierra Nevada, California.


Publications associated with this dataset can be found at NCALM's Data Tracking Center



Dataset Acknowledgement: Lidar data acquisition and processing completed by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM - https://ncalm.cive.uh.edu). NCALM funding provided by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program. EAR-1043051.

Dataset Citation: Sierra National Forest, CA: Soil Formation and Transport. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9FQ9TJQ . Accessed: 2024-12-21       Copied to Clipboard

Use License: CC BY 4.0

Dataset Keywords: lidar

Survey Date: 08/26/2005 - 08/27/2005

Publication Date: 11/21/2012
Total number of points: 111,077,052 pts

Area: 50 km2

Point Density: 2.22 pts/m2

Classifications:
Class 1 - Unclassified76,737,862
Class 2 - Ground34,339,190


Coordinate System:
Horizontal: NAD83 (CORS96) / UTM Zone 11N Meters [EPSG: 26911]
Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]

Units: meter

Survey Report: Reports

LAS Validation Data Report: CA05_Heimsath.html
Tile index in shapefile format: Download

Dataset Extent in GeoJSON format:   CA05_Heimsath.geojson

Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 37.2964707006622°     South: 36.9451320027323°     East: -119.06610912643°     West: -119.653713710596°